Mauritania

New York, December 26, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the death sentence handed down Wednesday to Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed on apostasy charges in connection to an article he published a year ago.

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New York, January 21, 2014--Authorities in Mauritania should drop charges
against a journalist who has been detained since January 2, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said today. Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed has been held in connection
with an article he wrote that was deemed blasphemous to the Prophet Muhammad.

The Middle East's political shifts changed conditions for journalists dramatically. The emerging trends favor free expression, but are filled with ambiguity and depend on the political configurations to emerge after the revolutionary dust has settled. By Mohamed Abdel Dayem

New York, December 23, 2011--The
Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Mauritanian authorities' Wednesday
decision to expel a Moroccan journalist from the country. The Mauritanian
government gave no reason for their decision.

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New York, March 28, 2011--Facing the nationwide spread of
political unrest, Syrian authorities barred three Reuters journalists from
reporting, blocked journalistic access to a hotbed of political dissent,
censored a critical satellite station, and detained a political blogger. The widespread
repression in Syria came on the same weekend that Libyan security agents
forcibly barred a woman in Tripoli from giving journalists her account of being
raped and abused by militiamen loyal to leader Muammar Qaddafi. Attacks on the
press were also reported in Iraq, Mauritania, and Jordan.

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New York, February 8, 2010—The Committee to Protect
Journalists is outraged by a second prison sentence given to Hanevy Ould Dehah,
editor of the online publication Taqadoumy, and calls on the Mauritanian judiciary to reverse the verdict
on appeal.

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Dear Mr. President, The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to protest the continued detention and relentless campaign of persecution against Hanevy Ould Dehah, editor of the online news site Taqadoumy, who has been imprisoned since June.

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New York, January 5, 2010—Mauritanian
authorities should immediately release an editor who has served his prison term
in its entirety, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The refusal
to free Hanevy Ould Dehah, editor of the online publication Taqadoumy, appears
to be unlawful and reflective of the politically
motivated nature of the case.